Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir Books
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
'My name is Oscar and I'm ten years old . . . They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and I've never written to you because I don't even know if you... (more)
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit.... (more)
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health... (more)
To the Lighthouse
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys,... (more)
The Winter's tale
'The work of Shakespeare is virtually infinite' Jorge Luis Borges
A jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on... (more)
Waiting for Sunrise
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the... (more)
The Truth About Lou (A Necessary Fiction)
This is a compelling novel based on the life of poet Lou Salome - protege of Nietzsche, lover of Rilke and muse to Freud - that brilliantly evokes the Sturm and Drang of turn-of-the-century Europe.... (more)